Was I the only one who thought that the twist--that the chick was Al'Ghul's daughter and that she was really the one to escape that prison and that Bane was basically working for her--probably (probably!) won't make any god damn sense if I were to rewatch the movie with that twist in mind? I have a significant Thing against plot twists that couldn't have 'occurred all along.'

Even if it made sense, though, the way it was crammed into the story at the end there made it way too damn convoluted for no damn reason. Much like in Spiderman 3, where Harry was all like "I'm evil but now I have amnesia but now I'm evil but now I'm good again but whoops now I'm dead"

Bear with me; I haven't seen DKR in a while and may have forgotten things.

I'm also probably the only one who really liked Bane as a villain--mask and voice, balls-out physical fighting style, all of it.

And yeah, you would have only really seen the "twist" coming if you knew the comic book mythology and were aware of this person's existence in the comic... then you could say, "Hmm.... I wonder...." and figure it out. Otherwise it was a lame twist and disappointing coming from Nolan. Compare it to The Prestige, where there were a few twists as well... but each was laboriously telegraphed, and after the first viewing, you could go back through the movie and see how the twists were right in front of your face the entire time, except you "weren't looking closely yet". Everything was there, so the twists were not a cheat.

"Hey Capa -- We're only stardust." ~ "Sunshine"

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.” ~ H.P. Lovecraft

I consider the Spiderman that came out this summer to be more enjoyable that TDKR was for me. At least I'll be watching the former again.

SM3 wasn't too bad, but casting Topher Grace as venom? Ick. I tolerated Thomas Haden Church as Sandman -- and it was kind of wild (and eerie) to see him get stripped down to his molecules and then try to reincorporate himself and move around.

"Hey Capa -- We're only stardust." ~ "Sunshine"

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.” ~ H.P. Lovecraft

And yeah, you would have only really seen the "twist" coming if you knew the comic book mythology and were aware of this person's existence in the comic... then you could say, "Hmm.... I wonder...." and figure it out.

Fans had been speculating about Talia from the initial casting of Marion Cortillard.
There were also leaked spy pics of her walking out of City Hall with the League of Shadows in tow.

She publicly denied playing her several months before release. Lazy filmmaking all around.